TheCaconym

For what it's worth, I get it. When my partner started to feel a headache she tested immediately and opted to sleep on the sofa herself with a N95. And I did not catch it thanks to this. And when I got it months later I immediately did the same. I would be pissed too.

It's easy enough to understand your partner's attitude given basically close to absolutely everyone doesn't seem to even pretend there is a still-mutating virus with many unknowns going around though, sadly. Which is infuriating.

they immediately blew up and demanded "look at me when we're talking!"

I have no idea if it's a thing at all but frankly that sounds a bit rude regardless, doubly so since they were presumably aware you had different cultural cues

Barely related, your story reminds me of one time younger I gave a presentation to visiting teachers from Bangalore. I had rarely interacted with Indian people at the time; and they do this thing in South India where they shake their head in some sort of vague way (it's hard to describe) to basically say "yes" or "continue". Except I had never encountered the gesture, and I spent the entire presentation increasingly getting more panicked wondering why the fuck these seniors dude kept shaking their heads like "no" / "I don't agree", slide after slide, genuinely wondering if I was talking nonsense. And even more confused why they seemed OK and agreeable despite it afterwards.

It's good right up until the last two books or so (thinking specifically of Snuff, but also Raising Steam here), where Vimes becomes a complete parody of himself, and there is also a large drop in quality.

Maybe Pratchett's disease had something to do with it.

I remember calling that as a kid because I read about it in a Tintin album

That's the first thing someone trying to hurt them would go for, it's almost like a "placed here for your convenience stabbing me" sign

It's genuinely easier to grab for someone standing in front of them than it is for them

The day they die, I wish whoever designed the medium.com frontend a very pleasant afterlife, except interrupted every 1 to 3 minutes by a popup asking them to register.

The Aegis system as standard fires 2 interceptor missiles at each incoming target (they cost $2.5M each), so if half of the ships cells are loaded with interceptors, it has enough to intercept 24 incoming objects before having to go home to rearm

That answers the amount over time (thank you !), but out of curiosity and if you know: what if it's 10 incoming objects at the same time ? can their missile cells thing fire 20 interceptors at the same time ? are they all constantly loaded and ready to fire, no intermediate storage ?

Also:

they cost $2.5M each

lmao

Just looked it up: The average Shahed drone is worth about $20,000

Half the time there are actual IDF soldiers well visible in these videos they look and act like they think they're at the beach or something, it's truly mind-boggling

I think if they wanted to sink a ship right now, they absolutely could.

This is exactly what I've been suspecting and why I asked; and also, I halfway expect, the reason why half the EU countries immediately pulled out of the initial operation lead by the US weeks ago (even if sometimes keeping some assets there independently) - they realized they could very well loose a very expensive ship and even worse, a very expensive "strong navy" image in the useless and very uncertain venture.

Indeed, I imagine the general position in Yemen is "keep impacting the colonialist entity's commerce", but until the empire itself escalates, they won't.

This whole thing, as well as the Ukraine war, has been incredibly eye-opening about both modern (look at how many drones are constantly in the Ukrainian skies) and asymmetric war, and the imagined strength of the military of the capitalist entities.

Here is what I suspect to be the original source, from Russia's Rosstat. Depending on who you plan to share it with, it might carry more weight than a telegram link.